Ziad Abdelnour Quotes
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful idiots are always asking, "What's in it for me"?
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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There's nothing more human than two people making love.
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
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We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.
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I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.
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I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.
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If your friend's feeling bad, it's hard to know what to do. Do you back away or try to help them? It's a really hard situation that I've been in. You want to support your friend. You want to be there. My advice is, don't get too involved with it, just be by their side. If they need your help, they'll ask for it.
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful idiots are always asking, "What's in it for me"?
